How To Use double-quick In A Sentence
- The brave Negro troops went forward at a double-quick; the skirmishers were the first to reach the embankments, and were greeted with a shower of bullets which tumbled many headlong and lifeless into the pits. A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia.
- Because this public global shaming is very effective in making them respond double-quick to your gripe. Scott Goodson: Why Movements Are Like a Good Marriage
- Under a terrible storm of shot and shell the line pressed forward steadily through the timber, and as it emerged on the plain took the double-quick and with fixed bayonets rushed at the enemy's first line. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
- The eight men on the ground, still four hundred yards from the nearest fires, made their next decision in double-quick time. BARRACUDA 945
- It appeared that the visitor was at any rate physically strong since he emptied the Traveller in double-quick time. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
- I was over the fence in double-quick time.
- Ages 11+ Twenty-one-year-old star chef Sam Stern's recipe book for the time-pressed teen is crammed full of ideas for whipping up good food double-quick. Recommended reads: nonfiction for ages 8+
- At the time of the incident, the controller said, he was fatigued because he "had to be up all night long on a double-quick turnaround. Controller fatigue an ongoing concern
- But Yunanian realized that Zaid would call for him in any case, and the guards and the courtiers would have to find him, double-quick. KARA KUSH
- It wasn't noble, but I scarpered double-quick.
